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Safety all year long
While the focus is on Farm Safety this
week right across Canada, it should be
practiced 365 days of the year.
When a variety of topics come up about
,tragic things happening, the comment is
sometimes heard, "Well, it doesn't hap-
pen around here". .
That is not the case when it comes to
farm safety. It can happen right here in
our Huron county area as was so dramati-
cally shown in an excellent story written
last week on farm safety by Yvonne Re-
ynolds.
Those attending the farm safety seminar
heard personal testimony from fellows
like Neil Stapleton, Don MacGregor and
John Paul Rau who know that it can hap-
pen to anyone.
They will be the -first to tell you that
safety rules should be practiced every day
of the week and every week of the year
and the emphasis should be placed on
making farmers aware that eternal vigi-
lance is the price of safety.
Statistics just released by the Canada
Safety Council show that 104 Canadians
died in farm -related accidents in 1986.
Provincially, Ontario was the highest
with 30 percent of all farm deaths fol-
lowed by Saskatchewan 21 percent, Al-
berta 20 percent and Quebec 11 percent.
Safety campaigns seem to be helping in
making everyone aware of dangers on the
farm. From 1976 to 1986 farm fatalities
dropped from 190 to 104. That is a 45
percent decline in 11 years.
As part of this year's campaign, the
Safety Council is urging all farm families
to take a summer safety hike to determine
if hazards exist around their farms.
There are more dangers on the farm
than what can meet the eye. Due to the ex-
treme hot and dry weather experienced
this year, there will likely be higher lev-
els of silo gas and high nitrates in corn.
Farmers are being asked to wait at -least
three weeks before entering a silo after it
has been filled. Nitrates build up in corn
and could cause poisoning in cattle.
Please participate in National Farm
Safety Week '88 and help make rural
Canada a safer place to work and live.
Then continue the same practice for the
other 51 weeks of the year.
By Ross Haugh
On the beach
Whcn city pcoplc want a
vacation, they come to the
country. But whcrc do rural folk
— whose whole life, as everyone
knows, is one continuous holiday
— go when they need a break
from all that bliss?
They go to the lake. To the
beach. To stretch out in the sun,
to swim, to water :ski. They wear
sun glasses and bathing suits and
pretend to be like everybody else.
This rural family is no
different. Every ycar we go on the
trek, in two cars packed to the
rafters with lawn chairs, rubber
diphies, tennis rackets, suitcases,
r�or;:xss• 3
'flys, books, cameras, ghetto
blasters, and all the other
paraphernalia that .simple pcoplc
living in the country need to
survive.
We get to the lake. Within
twenty minutes of our arrival the
cabin resembles a Canadian Tire
warehouse, and the sandy strip in
front of it looks Iikc Normandy
Beach on D -Day.
As soon as they have created
this chaos — which they call
"helping to unpack" — the kids
disappear, not to surface again
until supper time.
It takes Elizabeth that long to
straighten things out; to lay every
item of clothing in its proper
place in its proper drawer, and to
direct me to move the furniture
around, to open the windows, to
adjust thc fridge, to fetch ice
cubes, to put a hook here and a
t
clothes line there. After supper
(which thank goodness we cat at
the lodge), there is time for a
quick walk to the boat dock before
bedtime starts.
Bedtime starts whcn Elizabeth
says: "I think the children arc
exhausted; they should be in bed
fairly early tonight. Do you feel
like rounding them up?"
Since that is always exactly the
way I feel, I put on my spurs,
PETER'S
POINT
Duncan is thc most difficult to
track down because he is so quiet.
Using a moose call as a
megaphone, 1 finally make
contact with him at the wood pile
whcrc he is trying to find a
suitable block of wood for me to
carve. I help with the selection,
and then 1 make my first promise
of the week: "Ycs, I will carve
you a knife tomorrow".
My second promise comes five
minutes later: "Ycs, we will have
a camp fire tomorrow night",
with the adjunct "Ycs, 1' will go
to Frasers and buy some hot dogs
and marshmallows".
•
ArSo the days at the lake pass by.
With nature walks, mosquito
bites, poison ivy, splinters in
feet, glass in feet, entangled
fishing lines, lost hats,
interrupted games of tennis,
fctch my lasso, mount my pony
and ride off into the sunset to find
my children. Alexander is out on
the diving dock, fishing. I transfer
from pony to rowboat and rope
him in, 'together with his tackle
box, pail and sickly sun fish.
Stephanie is getting ready to
give her doll carriage a wash in
thc lake, and she has to be
convinced that (a) it is bed time,
and (h) that this particular type of
doll carriage docs not lend itself to
total immersion. She disagrees
with both "premises and offers
resistance which can only be
overcome by what i call the quick
pickup system.
whittling, trips to Frasers, ping-
pong lessons, bruised toes in the
horseshoe pit, and tears over a
Lost game of tether ball.
Thcrc are many happy hours of
swimming and canoeing,
motorboating, fishing, spotting
blue herons, listening to early
morning loons, watching glorious
sunsets, singing campfire songs,
and playing volleyball.
Thcrc is usually time for at
least one hour of 'peace and quiet
when 1 tic on thc beach in a lawn
chair, alone, soaking up the sun,
wondcring what on earth we
would do if we couldn't comc to
thc lake, to thc beach, to relax.
Serving South Huron, North Middlesex
& North Lambton Since 1873
Published by J.W. Eedy Publications Limited
"I, TOO, AM A BIG FAN OF SOHN TURNER... BUT THEN, I'M A TORY."
A good place to visit
We have talked to a number of
people who were on the recent
bus trip through the southern
portion of the territory covered
by the Ausable Bayfield Conser-
vation Authority and all were
thoroughly impressed with what
they saw.
Due to the hot weather on Sat-
urday July 16 and other commit-
ments we joined the close to 1(X)
people at Rock Glen for Lunch.
For those who have never
been to the conservation arca at
Rock Glen, you are really miss-
ing something. A visit there on a
comfortable summer day could
be very enjoyable whether it be
for a picnic or a siesta with na-
ture.
Thanks to Summer Experi-
ence students and Authority field
staff, stcps have been erected to
carry a person all the way from
the bottom of the gorge to the
top.
Rock Glen superintendent
Andy Buchan told us that 125
steps arc in the stairway system
and although we didn't walk
along much of the way, we
know it will be very helpful, to
persons of all ages.
When the Authority Founda-
tion purchased an all terrain vehi-
cle a year ago from and with the
co-operation of Huron Tractor
we wcrc told it would help Bu-
chan in his supervision of the
park arca.
Now we know how true that
is. When we arrived at Rock
Glen to catch up with thc tour,
just a few of thc visitors wcrc
still at the museum which has
also recently been built.
After taking a picture at the
-museum we wcrc about to fol-
low the others through the
trails to the picnic arca when
along came Andy Buchan with
his handy vehicle and we
hitched a tide through hill and
dale.
When lunch was over Andy
was right on the scene and away
we were again on another ride
to look over the stairway system
and then taken right back to our
car.
We only get down to that
portion of thc Arkona arca a
couple of times a year, but it's
pa, From the
r;editor's disk
by
Ross Flaugh
always pleasant to drop in for
what is most of the time a breath
of fresh air and enjoyment of
nature at its best.
Thanks for the ride, Andy.
* * * *
A couple of weeks ago on our
editorial page in the Back in
Time column it was mentioned
the sports editor of the T A in
1968 had his car stolen and the
main reason was that the keys
wcrc left in the ignition.
We plead guilty as suggested
and can still remember the inci-
dent very clearly. it was a
Thursday afternoon and we
pulled up directly in front of
dIMIM
Fink's Butcher Shop adjacent to
thc T -A and intended to pop into
thc office -for only a minute to
make a phone call..
-One thing led to another and it
was close to an hour before
emerging from the office. Look-
ing up and down the street the
car was nowhere in sight. Into
the butcher shop we go to in-
quire about the whereabouts of
the vehicle and Harold Boltz-
mann says, " Ycs, I saw a guy
drive away a few minutes ago".
It was almost a week before
the car was found behind a barn
in.a field near Granton. It seems
whoever took The car only want-
ed to get from one point to an-
other.
Since that time, the keys arc
removed from the car when we
stop. Most of the time, that is.
We have heard from a little
birdie that the same thing hap-
pened to a resident of Exeter in
recent days. This time the car
was found only a short distance
from whcrc it was originally
parked. Again the keys were
readily available.
That long awaited rain on the
weekend of July 16 and 17 did
wonders for arca farm crops. Al-
though some areas to the south
received more moisture•than in
the immediate Exctcr arca, it did
a lot of good.
A drive through the country-
side last Tuesday night after the
paper was put to bed was enjoy-
able. it appeared as all of the
crops wcrc looking up and say-
ing "thank you'.
Filter the truth
In the early days of television it
was quite easy to resist the hard -
sell commercials which bom-
barded us without ceasing. Sure-
ly nobody rushed out to buy Ipa-
na toothpaste after watching a
very toothy • beaver nasally
'singing' "Brusha-brusha bru-
sha, new ipana toothpasc. it's
dandy for your tee-ccth."
What is a little more frightening
to mc now is thc soft -sell com-
mercials which are very carefully
devised to hold your attention
and keep you watching long
enough to keep you at your set
and not heading for the refrigera-
tor. Michael Jackson gets paid
millions of dollars to do a Pepsi
slot and docs his job very profes-
sicnally. However, it is not his
responsibility to suggest that he
is selling a product which is full
of sugar and ruins people's
teeth.
Most of us forget that many of
By the
Way
.hy
Syd
Fletcher
these 30 second commercials
cost far more to produce than the
30 minutc program which is lac-
ing sponsored by it, which is
probably a sad commentary
about our values.
Beer commercials arc done su-
perbly. They arc full of colour
and arc often truly funny. The
unfortunate part of them though
is that they depict a certain life
style which 1 am sure strikes
youngsters as being desirable.
The pcoplc in thc slots arc'
young, handsome, attractive,
successful and seem to be having
fun. That fun seems to be inex-
tricably entwined with the con-
sumption of alcohol.
As parents and teachers, it is
important that we take time to
point out to children the impor-
tance of filtering out truth from
half-truth when they observe the
world around them through tele-
vision and radio.
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Serving South Huron, North Middlesex
& North Lambton Since 1873
Published by J.W. Eedy Publications Limited
"I, TOO, AM A BIG FAN OF SOHN TURNER... BUT THEN, I'M A TORY."
A good place to visit
We have talked to a number of
people who were on the recent
bus trip through the southern
portion of the territory covered
by the Ausable Bayfield Conser-
vation Authority and all were
thoroughly impressed with what
they saw.
Due to the hot weather on Sat-
urday July 16 and other commit-
ments we joined the close to 1(X)
people at Rock Glen for Lunch.
For those who have never
been to the conservation arca at
Rock Glen, you are really miss-
ing something. A visit there on a
comfortable summer day could
be very enjoyable whether it be
for a picnic or a siesta with na-
ture.
Thanks to Summer Experi-
ence students and Authority field
staff, stcps have been erected to
carry a person all the way from
the bottom of the gorge to the
top.
Rock Glen superintendent
Andy Buchan told us that 125
steps arc in the stairway system
and although we didn't walk
along much of the way, we
know it will be very helpful, to
persons of all ages.
When the Authority Founda-
tion purchased an all terrain vehi-
cle a year ago from and with the
co-operation of Huron Tractor
we wcrc told it would help Bu-
chan in his supervision of the
park arca.
Now we know how true that
is. When we arrived at Rock
Glen to catch up with thc tour,
just a few of thc visitors wcrc
still at the museum which has
also recently been built.
After taking a picture at the
-museum we wcrc about to fol-
low the others through the
trails to the picnic arca when
along came Andy Buchan with
his handy vehicle and we
hitched a tide through hill and
dale.
When lunch was over Andy
was right on the scene and away
we were again on another ride
to look over the stairway system
and then taken right back to our
car.
We only get down to that
portion of thc Arkona arca a
couple of times a year, but it's
pa, From the
r;editor's disk
by
Ross Flaugh
always pleasant to drop in for
what is most of the time a breath
of fresh air and enjoyment of
nature at its best.
Thanks for the ride, Andy.
* * * *
A couple of weeks ago on our
editorial page in the Back in
Time column it was mentioned
the sports editor of the T A in
1968 had his car stolen and the
main reason was that the keys
wcrc left in the ignition.
We plead guilty as suggested
and can still remember the inci-
dent very clearly. it was a
Thursday afternoon and we
pulled up directly in front of
dIMIM
Fink's Butcher Shop adjacent to
thc T -A and intended to pop into
thc office -for only a minute to
make a phone call..
-One thing led to another and it
was close to an hour before
emerging from the office. Look-
ing up and down the street the
car was nowhere in sight. Into
the butcher shop we go to in-
quire about the whereabouts of
the vehicle and Harold Boltz-
mann says, " Ycs, I saw a guy
drive away a few minutes ago".
It was almost a week before
the car was found behind a barn
in.a field near Granton. It seems
whoever took The car only want-
ed to get from one point to an-
other.
Since that time, the keys arc
removed from the car when we
stop. Most of the time, that is.
We have heard from a little
birdie that the same thing hap-
pened to a resident of Exeter in
recent days. This time the car
was found only a short distance
from whcrc it was originally
parked. Again the keys were
readily available.
That long awaited rain on the
weekend of July 16 and 17 did
wonders for arca farm crops. Al-
though some areas to the south
received more moisture•than in
the immediate Exctcr arca, it did
a lot of good.
A drive through the country-
side last Tuesday night after the
paper was put to bed was enjoy-
able. it appeared as all of the
crops wcrc looking up and say-
ing "thank you'.
Filter the truth
In the early days of television it
was quite easy to resist the hard -
sell commercials which bom-
barded us without ceasing. Sure-
ly nobody rushed out to buy Ipa-
na toothpaste after watching a
very toothy • beaver nasally
'singing' "Brusha-brusha bru-
sha, new ipana toothpasc. it's
dandy for your tee-ccth."
What is a little more frightening
to mc now is thc soft -sell com-
mercials which are very carefully
devised to hold your attention
and keep you watching long
enough to keep you at your set
and not heading for the refrigera-
tor. Michael Jackson gets paid
millions of dollars to do a Pepsi
slot and docs his job very profes-
sicnally. However, it is not his
responsibility to suggest that he
is selling a product which is full
of sugar and ruins people's
teeth.
Most of us forget that many of
By the
Way
.hy
Syd
Fletcher
these 30 second commercials
cost far more to produce than the
30 minutc program which is lac-
ing sponsored by it, which is
probably a sad commentary
about our values.
Beer commercials arc done su-
perbly. They arc full of colour
and arc often truly funny. The
unfortunate part of them though
is that they depict a certain life
style which 1 am sure strikes
youngsters as being desirable.
The pcoplc in thc slots arc'
young, handsome, attractive,
successful and seem to be having
fun. That fun seems to be inex-
tricably entwined with the con-
sumption of alcohol.
As parents and teachers, it is
important that we take time to
point out to children the impor-
tance of filtering out truth from
half-truth when they observe the
world around them through tele-
vision and radio.